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I'd probably die because my implants need power armour to work.

 sing your life wrote:
I'd probably die because my implants need power armour to work.

No, power armor NEEDS implants to work, not the other way around.

Well, I probably wouldn't have my daughter for starters.

I would eat the brains of my Uni lecturers to pass my exams by absorbing their knowledge.
And I'd clean up in drinking games and competitions - "bet you £50 I can drink more than you can" would be something of a catchphrase for Space-Marine-Me

The bad- Looking like Frankenstein means the girls that are interested in you would probably be more interesting than you.

The good- The amount of new tricks up your sleeve to prank people around you are endless. Ripping off all your scuba gear and pretending to drown underwater? Proclaiming to the world that you've been abducted by aliens and are living proof they implant stuff in people? etc...

Become a power lifter, assuming i passed all the relevant tests.
Start Pro wrestling on WWE
Win the worlds strongest man competition.
Run marathons for fun and smash all the records.
become a triathalon champion
beat all the records at eating competitions
enter, and win the ultimate fighting competion forever
start boxing and stay world champion for the next 2-300 years and make the 30m a match Mayweather gets look like pocket change


Start a biotech company and make a killing from reverse engineering my implants using all the profits from the above, create my own army of super soldiers.

Conquer the world

Zewrath wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
I'd probably die because my implants need power armour to work.

No, power armor NEEDS implants to work, not the other way around.

I heard power armour stops the SM's body rejecting so many implements.

I imagine being a space marine would be somewhat like having autism. Your heightened senses are constantly being bombarded by a riot of information, your brain needing to be in overdrive at all times to be able to process it all. You would be arranged in strict social groups to prevent friction and awkwardness, and put towards some task that one can channel one's obsessive energy into.

If I became a space marine all the sudden, it would be pretty tough, because our social structures aren't designed well for people like this. Yes, the occasional Thomas Jeffersons and Eric Eichmans get through, but for most people, well, if you behaved like a space marine, you'd be labeled with a mental illness, and likely be marginalized unless you had connections with someone who could make use of your peculiar skill set.

Which means likely the first thing that would happen for me is that I'd give myself over to chaos. The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long anyways.

I would definitely walk into a gamestore, plonk down an army full of just a basic master and tactical marines and dare ANYONE to beat me with it. You think wookies are bad when they lose?

 sing your life wrote:

Zewrath wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
I'd probably die because my implants need power armour to work.

No, power armor NEEDS implants to work, not the other way around.

I heard power armour stops the SM's body rejecting so many implements.

No, that would be drugs and heavy hypno therapy from the apocatheries, and such, in the beginning process of creating an Astartes.
Although the power armor does administer combat drugs and pain killers, assist auto-senses, and even boosts their strength further, it is still not required for them to wear power armor in order to sustain their organs. If that was the case, then the Scouts would die in their training stages, due to the fact that they only have acces to carapace armor.

If I had the full Space Marine treatment, I'd be pretty much the same as I am now.

Just bigger, stronger, faster, and possibly not as good looking.

Finding a seat on the bus might be difficult; being about 6'8" (7' is their armoured height) and 350 pounds would make clothes shopping an interesting experience.

I'd only want it if I could control my strength, and have normal sized hands. Otherwise I would never be able to use a keyboard properly again.

I'd become an actor. I'd be great as villains. Or 2nd in command Henchies.

I would think that you wouldn't be allowed to be a athlete. You'd crush everybody. In everything.

Then, after making a bajillion dollas, I'd spend the rest of my several hundred years left, playing video games, watching movies, and painting minis. Oh the stuff you could build in minecraft if you had a few hundred years!

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
I'd only want it if I could control my strength, and have normal sized hands. Otherwise I would never be able to use a keyboard properly again.

I'd become an actor. I'd be great as villains. Or 2nd in command Henchies.

I would think that you wouldn't be allowed to be a athlete. You'd crush everybody. In everything.

Then, after making a bajillion dollas, I'd spend the rest of my several hundred years left, playing video games, watching movies, and painting minis. Oh the stuff you could build in minecraft if you had a few hundred years!

Heh, I instantly thought of Dorn and Perturabo hunched over laptops with Dorn giving the Perturabo the evil eye. (more than likely because Perturabo is tearing down Dorn's dirt house)

You guys think small, I would be in the NFL with a multi-million dollar contract. They don't check for implants, and because marines don't really age, my career would span centuries.

I would finally be a bad enough dude.

I'd most likely do about the same things I do now, but have a lot more fun on weekends.

I'm now picturing a Space Marine with a suit and tie in a cubicle.

 dementedwombat wrote:
I'd most likely do about the same things I do now, but have a lot more fun on weekends.

I'm now picturing a Space Marine with a suit and tie in a cubicle.

That suit would need some SERIOUS tailoring to fit a 8 foot(ish) tall man with absurdly wide shoulders and insanely large muscles. Getting clothes would be a pain. Like a major pain.


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Just check this pic
http://oi52.tinypic.com/282qg5j.jpg
Close to a 1:2 waist to shoulder ratio. Dang.

Freman Bloodglaive wrote:
If I had the full Space Marine treatment, I'd be pretty much the same as I am now.

Just bigger, stronger, faster, and possibly not as good looking.

Finding a seat on the bus might be difficult; being about 6'8" (7' is their armoured height) and 350 pounds would make clothes shopping an interesting experience.

6'8?
Aren't they like 7'6 on average unarmored with weight in access of 600lbs?
The amount of growth hormone, and testosterone space marines are shoveled full of.....

You'll get anything between six and ten feet depending on who you ask. I go with nine myself.

I would become a real life super hero. The only problem would be the secret identity part.

 ThePrimordial wrote:

Freman Bloodglaive wrote:
If I had the full Space Marine treatment, I'd be pretty much the same as I am now.

Just bigger, stronger, faster, and possibly not as good looking.

Finding a seat on the bus might be difficult; being about 6'8" (7' is their armoured height) and 350 pounds would make clothes shopping an interesting experience.

6'8?
Aren't they like 7'6 on average unarmored with weight in access of 600lbs?
The amount of growth hormone, and testosterone space marines are shoveled full of.....

I recall them being about 7 feet armoured, then someone claimed they were 8 feet, and then everyone kept adding inches.

*shrugs*

This is the internet. Everything is bigger here.

Its routinely stated in the fluff that they reach up to 3 meters tall (probably when armored).

That's 10 feet near enough. I can see exceptionally large Space Marines (like Ranulf) being about that big.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/253772.page

Apparently officially they're about 7 feet.

I would team up with someone tech savvy, would patrol forums for trolls, have my sidekick tell me where their house is and then we would pay them a visit. My sidekick would film me punch the troll's keyboard into dust and then give a stern lecture on internet etiquette before turning to the camera with some cheesy grin and a thumbs up.

Also if I found time I would install myself as moderator of GW board meetings. "Oh...you want to charge how much for a supplement? My fists think it should be cheaper, but what do they know, they're just gigantic killing slabs...am I right? "

You're welcome Dakka.

Zewrath wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
I'd probably die because my implants need power armour to work.

No, power armor NEEDS implants to work, not the other way around.

Neither are true, there are plenty of people without implants who wear power armour, and plenty of examples of people with implants who don't wear power armour.

I would like to have the one that gets you the exact sun screen protection you need for the weather conditions you are in. Doesn't require male hormons and kicks in after taking a drug. If it could be made more see through it would be a bonus.


All that cash saved on buying sun screens , lotions etc.

I would probably take a job in retail at an electronics store.

I think I'd be very convincing at selling gold-plated HDMI cables and could make a steady career out of it.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

Zewrath wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
I'd probably die because my implants need power armour to work.

No, power armor NEEDS implants to work, not the other way around.

Neither are true, there are plenty of people without implants who wear power armour, and plenty of examples of people with implants who don't wear power armour.

I think he meant SM power armor.

I would go the MD / PHD route and become an uber Apothecary by reverse engineering myself. Grab doctorates in everything I was even mildly interested in, get hands on xp for as long as they'd let me in any field I found relevant to my next goal.

Cure cancer, learn how to regenerate limbs, basically help brind about Humanity V2.0.

Then, spread all that goodness around the world and bring everyone up to their best, and generally improve humanity as much as possible so we could all proceed to Space Age uber tech.

Then off to the stars, Final Frontier here I come

 Instinctual wrote:
I would go the MD / PHD route and become an uber Apothecary by reverse engineering myself. Grab doctorates in everything I was even mildly interested in, get hands on xp for as long as they'd let me in any field I found relevant to my next goal.

Cure cancer, learn how to regenerate limbs, basically help brind about Humanity V2.0.

Then, spread all that goodness around the world and bring everyone up to their best, and generally improve humanity as much as possible so we could all proceed to Space Age uber tech.

Then off to the stars, Final Frontier here I come

So you're going on a different path to becoming the Emperor?